O uso de plantas medicinais: de que forma a escola trabalha esse tema?

Abstract

An ethnobotanical research was carried out with 23 students from the eighth year of the Center for Integrated Child Care Paulo Darcoso Filho (CAIC), in the municipality of Seropédica, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The work consisted of the application of a semistructured questionnaire and the development of workshops in partnership with the school unit, after which a second questionnaire was applied . The first questionnaire was composed of questions on the forms of use, toxicity, knowledge of plants their drug interaction. Three workshops were held using the CAIC's medicinal plants as a playful and pedagogical tool. These workshops were presented through a video, recognition of medicinal plants and offering of teas. During the presentation of the video it was noticed that some students recognized some medicinal plants, and in the offering of the infusions the majority participated as a stimulus to answer the second questionnaire. The students' knowledge about the use of medicinal plants was surprising, contradicting the literature, where knowledge about the use of medicinal plants of this age group is not expected This result may be related to the geographical location of the students, who live near the rural area. The theme of medicinal plant can be inserted in the classes of biology as a transversal theme, which would allow the dissemination of knowledge and the preservation of traditional use. The medicinal plants used in the research were made available in the school and transformed into exsicatas. At that time we tried to recover the plants of the Farmácia Viva located in the school unit